Earnie sits out Toon clash

16 October 2009 08:20

Wales international Robert Earnshaw will miss Nottingham Forest's televised Championship clash against league leaders Newcastle.

The striker suffered a calf injury last week while training with John Toshack's national side and is expected to be out for around four weeks.

Reds boss Billy Davies will hope that another Wales player Chris Gunter will return from international duty unscathed. The right-back played both his country's World Cup qualifying games, in Finland at the weekend and in Liechtenstein on Wednesday night.